Vehicle.



No. 697,395.' PatentedApr. 8, |902.

` F.A BOSCH.

VEHICLE.

(Application led Sept. 21, 1901.\

(No Model.)

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WM M i UNrTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BOSCH, OF CRESCENT CITY, CALlFORNlA, ASSIGNOVR OF ONE-HALF TO VILLIAM l). BUTLER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,395, dated April 8, 1902.

y Application filed September 21,1901. Serial No. 76,088. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKBOSCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crescent City, in the county of Del Norte and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This'invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vehicles, particularly lo wagons, and has for its object to provide new and novel means for suspending the bed or Abody of the vehicle to prevent any lateral or longitudinal movement thereof, thereby overcoming the jostling or jarring while traveling.

i The invention further aims to construct a suspension means for the bed or body of the vehicle which shall be extremely simple in its construction, strong, durable, efficient in its use, comparatively inexpensive to setup; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate correspondin g parts throughout both views, and in Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vehicle, showing my improved suspension means in position. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the vehicle, the body shown in dotted lines.

3 5 Referring to the drawings by referencenumerals, 1 denotes the running-gear of a vehicle, and 2 the vehicle-body. Secured to the lower face at each side of the runninggear, at the front and rear thereof, is the lower 4o end of a substantially bow-shaped hanger 3. The lower end of these bow-shaped hangers is secured by means of bolts or other suitable fastening means at the points above stated. The hangers 3 are arranged so that they extend toward the bodyv of the vehicle in a diagonal manner. The upper end of the hangers projects above the bottom or bed of the body 2. The upper end of the hangers terminates into a hook 5. The hangers 3 are 5o formed, preferably,of a round metal bar, bent in a bowed manner, and are supported and retained in their diagonal position by means 'of the outwardly and upwardly extending inclined` supporting-standards 6. The lower end of these standards are bentin an angular manner in respect to the remaining portion thereof, as at 7, and these angular portions are adapted to receive a suitable fastening means for connecting the lower end of the standards to the running-gear. The upper 6o end of the standards are also bent in an angular manner to form` an offset S, upon which is mounted the upper end of the hangers 3. These offsets are suitably secured to the hangers.

The reference-numerals 9 denotes a series coil compression-springs, a pair of which is arranged at each side of the wagon-body 2. The upper end of each of these springs is connected to a sliding compression-plate 10, 7o carried on the upper end of the rod l1, and the lower end of the compression-spring 9 is connected to a sliding plate 12, carried on the lower end of the staple 13. The upper end of the staple 13 engages the hook 5 of the 75 hangers 3, so that the latter will suspend the staple 13. The coil-springs 9 surround the rods 11 and staples 13 between the plates 10 and l2. The lower end of the rods 11 is connected to the bed of the body of the vehicle 8o by means of forming the lower end of said rods 11 with an eye to permit of connecting them to the hooks of the bars 15, secured to and extending entirely across the bed of the bodyof the vehicle. The arrangement of the springs 9 is such that they extend in a radial manner from or toward the center of the bed of the vehicle, and by such an arrangement longitudinal or lateral movement of the body of the vehicle is prevented. The springs 9 9o are so arranged a suitable distance from the body of the vehicle as to prevent the same be'- ing injured by the operation of the sliding plates when weight is placed upon the body of a vehicle, which lowers the latter. v It will be evident that the springs 9 arenormally in extended position when there is n o weight upon the vehicle; but that when weight is placed thereon the springs will be compressed by means of the lowering of the rods l1 and roo the downward pull on the plates 10.

It will be evident from the foregoing construction, particularly owing to the arrangement of the springs and their hangers in a diagonal manner or in a radial direction to the center of the bed of the body of the vehicle, longitudinal orlateral displacement of the body will be prevented, thereby overcoming the usual jostling or jarring when the vehicle is in use.

I ain aware that helical springs have been employed in carriages to sustain the body of the carriage; but to my knowledge they have always been placed vertically or horizontally and have no play deviating from such positions relatively to the frame or body of the carriage; but I am not aware that helical springs have been arranged at the sides of the body of the vehicle and which extend in a radial direction toward the center ot' the body of the vehicle at an inclination, and it is thought that the many advant-ages of such a construction can be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and, furthermore, it will be noted that minor changes may be made in the details of construction withont departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the running-gear and body of a vehicle, of a pair of bars connected to the lower face of the said body and having theirendsprojecting outwardly from the body, each ofthe said ends of the said bars provided with an opening, a series of standards secured at their lower ends with the upper face of the running-gear, a series of hangers secured to the lower face of the running-gear and connected near their upper ends to the top of the said standards, the latter supporting the said hangers,said hangers having their upper ends terminating in a hook, and a series of springs connected at one end to the hooks of the hangers and at their other end in the openings .of the bars, substantially as shown and described and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK BOSCH.

XVitiiesses:

LEE D. WINDREM, W. P. ELwELL. 

